Women Talking by Miriam Toews

Women Talking by Miriam ToewsIn a remote Mennonite colony, over a hundred girls and women were knocked unconscious and violated by what many thought were ghosts or demons as punishment for their sins. Their accounts were chalked up to 'wild female imagination.' Women Talking is an imagined response to these real events. When the women learn that they were in fact drugged and attacked by men in their community, they hold a secret meeting in a hayloft. They have two days to make a

ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins

This particular edition of the book is a 2009 reprint by Penguin

Anna’s lifeline to the real world is her window

and a natural philosopher to boot'

comes a moving and haunting novel of family

He highlights the key episodes in this colonial campaign

and hard-won wisdom about the eternal power of love over grief

samsara (keeping going)

she enters the close world of his jealous first wife

has been chosen to represent America as Ambassador to Romania

encountering legendary creatures and shrewd monarchs

wicked beasts